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Trump’s Rhetoric Goes to a New and More Dangerous Level
‘Migrants aren’t people,’ and if he loses, ‘it will be a blood bath’
In Russia, millions are expressing how Russian democracy is superior to Western-style democracy. Undistracted by the silliness of choice, citizens fulfill their “civil duty” by heading to polls to cast their votes for “the one.” As they pridefully say, “If not Putin, then who?” Russian democracy is so tidy, and except for the acts of a few bad apples, it really is something to be envied.
(Hand to the mouth, I fake a cough): Bullshit.
Yes, what I wrote in the first paragraph is nonsense, but this is what most Russians feel. In fact, democracy is sloppy, messy, and unsightly and reveals all the cuts, bruises, blemishes, and belly rolls of a shirt that fits just a bit too snugly. America’s version of democracy is under attack by the right. It is under attack by Republicans because they are pushing extremist, racist, and oppressive political ideas that the majority of Americans don’t accept. They are passing laws to suppress the vote. SCOTUS, since 2012, has supported the limitations on voting and democracy hobbled and retreating in many states, in fact, it becomes fitter as muscles that had not been in use get stretched and worked. This, too, is happening in the United States.
